Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

Suffering comes from our resistance to what is. Peace comes from our acceptance of what is.

True freedom is not the absence of commitment but the presence of choice.

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

Meditation is not about escaping from difficulty but about meeting it with awareness.

As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

Peace is not found by changing the world, but by changing your attitude to the world.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

The cave I live in is empty and so is my mind. I live simply and at ease.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.

Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.

The water in the ocean can be rough or calm. It can be clear or murky. But the water itself doesn't mind.

Kindness is the solution to all of life's problems.

When the iron bird flies and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the face of the earth.

The mind is like a well-forged sword - it adapts to all situations.

Genuine happiness comes from having developed basic human qualities, such as attention, emotional balance, and generosity.

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

The state of mind that exists when you sit in the right posture is, itself, enlightenment.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

The development of insight is gradual, but the realization of truth is sudden.

The more you understand, the more you love; the more you love, the more you understand.

Meditation is not about trying to change ourselves. Meditation is about being aware of what is.

Mindfulness is not just bare attention but wise attention that leads to understanding and insight.

The only thing that we truly have control over is our attitude toward experience.

Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.

The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it.

Don't take life too seriously. No one gets out alive anyway.

My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra. My mother is the ultimate sphere of reality, Samantabhadri. I belong to the caste of non-duality of these two.

Mindfulness is the quality and power of mind that is aware of what's happening—without judgment and without interference.

The more we understand the nature of our mind, the more we understand the nature of our world.

Mindfulness is the key to the present moment. Without it we cannot see the world clearly, and we cannot make the wisest choices in our lives.

Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken.